The Clot Thickens - The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease
Malcolm Kendrick
More disturbingly, the greater the fall in the cholesterol level, the more people died. Yes, you did just read that. For each 1% fall in cholesterol there was a 1% increase in the risk of death. “There was a 22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL (0.78 mmol/L) reduction in serum cholesterol.”
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“Ramsden, of the National Institutes of Health, unearthed raw data from a 40-year-old study, which challenges the dogma that eating vegetable fats instead of animal fats is good for the heart. The study, the largest gold-standard experiment testing that idea, found the opposite, Ramsden and his colleagues reported on Tuesday in the BMJ”
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